Introduction: From hope to despair But hope dampened by the influenza pandemic Prohibition, a further dampener on hedonistic desires?...

BACK INTO EUROPE Introduction: Three Presidents and a General Roosevelt, Taft, Wilson, and Pershing Precursors to War: America at Peace...

Synopisis for Lockdown Lecture, 27th November Taking Stock We all know, what they could only guess at: World War One Wider still and...

Preface: Aftermath of wars can be both messy and lengthy Lincoln looks to the future but his time is cut short Andrew Johnson succeeds...

Synopsis Preface 1860 Presidential Election The Nature of Civil War Overview: From Ft Sumter to Appomattox The first modern war The...

A one-off lecture on Sunday 12t November for Lockdown Synopsis 1 Early days of Puritan immigration 2 The 'Great Awakening' of George...

My first lecture in the new Lockdown series on Modern America looks at the long lead-in to the Civil War. 1 Wider context post 1776 2 ...

Lockdown lecture Synopsis Monday 30 October What is Neutrality? is it multi-faceted? What is Swiss Neutrality? Does it define what the...

My lecture on Monday 23 October will follow this structure:- Reformation across Europe Reformation in Switzerland centres on two men:...

Dear Fellow Lockdowners, I shall be teaching tomorrow, Monday, as well as Tuesday this week. The two lectures will be part of the wider...

We start at the finish, ie 30/1/1649 The context of our story today: Religious divisions The childhoods of our two Principals The...

Two new books on fascinating topics by two of our popular history writers:- France on Trial Max Hastings The trial of WW1 hero, Marshal...

The 1930s began in New York on the 29th October 1929 with The Wall Street Crash. The ripples spread our across the world. Britain, like...

The Twenties One might be forgiven for thinking that with all the 'modern' changes to life, from radio broadcasts to the 'talkies', from...

The People (Working Class history, 20th century) Selina Todd The InterWar Years Robert Freeman (short pamphlet) Britain in the...

War Memoirs Vol 2 D Lloyd George The Prime Ministers (for Lloyd George) Iain Dale Our History of the Twentieth...

This is the first of three lectures which looks at the period in British History from the end of The First War to the start of the...

May I recommend a newly published book by Jonathan Farley, late of The Royal Naval College, Greenwich. THE STRUGGLE FOR POWER Jonathan...

Both of these areas became subject to progressive legislation during the Victorian era. The Education Act of 1870 revolutionised primary...

Books on Riots, Bawdiness, & Polite Society The Time Traveller's Guide to Regency Britain Ian Mortimer Eavesdropping on Jane Austen's...